Nottingham pubs

[chainsaw cat]

I'll rate them in rank order for quality of beer and atmosphere/clientle:-

The Lion, New Basford (Great selection and quality of beers, friendly and very mixed crowd) Right next to the tram stop

The Gladstone, Carrington (Friendly Victorian backstreet boozer, great beer, good laugh/great beer garden)
The Plough, Radford (Great pub and tap for Nottingham brewery. Quick brewery tour £1 which includes a pint bottle of EPA and a buffet!)

The Vat and Fiddle, Meadows (Great beer/great cobs)

The Lincolnshire Poacher, Mansfield Road (An institution for a reason)

Hope this helps. I've emphasised real ale type pubs. If you want the anarcho types (and real ale) The Sumac, Gladstone Street, Forest Fields is for you. Copies of 'Organise!', dogs on strings (or usually off them), vegan food.

More than a good pub, a classic of the type - I drink there at every opportunity when I go back to Ningam.

 

[chainsaw cat]

The Salutation Inn is good. Good beer and they also have caves underneath that you can wander round if you ask nicely.
It's a comfortable atmosphere sort of a pub too.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=U...53.481508,-1.021729&spn=1.471031,3.477173&z=8

Half Nottingham has caves under it... my mate ran a shop near the Old Angel (over rated, great if you are 21 and think you're living on the edge) and she ended up under Debenhams after a night of pissed up exploring. We found some bottles and odds and sods in one little annex of the cave under the shop what had been there since 1942 ish!

 

[mattie]

MY girlfriend used to live in West Bridgford and we went to the Cricketers quite a bit - lovely old art deco building with a revolving door at the front.

I gather it's been refurbished, which I assume means ripping out anything of interest and bunging in nasty ikea-like chipboard furniture and flat-screen TVs. Anyone tell me this isn't so?

 

[spawnofsatan]

Its called the Test Match and its listed, so things are pretty much as they were.

(Apart from it turning into a chain restaurant/pub)

 

[mattie]

Its called the Test Match and its listed, so things are pretty much as they were.

(Apart from it turning into a chain restaurant/pub)

Was it always the Test Match, or am I going mad? It was cricket-related, anyway.

Glad to hear it can't be changed, sad to hear it's a chain pub.

 

[spawnofsatan]

Yeah, its always been the Test Match, great if you like Art Deco.

 

[TomPaine]

Is Spiders still there? It's that bar just across from the Pit and Pendulum? Last time I was there was some biker gang in there and they where having a lock in.

I remember some pub I think was called the Castle which was just over from the errr... Castle.
There used to be a Scream Pub near rock city as well.

TomPaine

 

[spawnofsatan]

I think Spiders has gone, the castle is still there though. I had many an acid fuelled night in the basement there in the late 80's.

 

[Mallard]

Its called the Test Match and its listed, so things are pretty much as they were.

(Apart from it turning into a chain restaurant/pub)

Sadly with the nouvea riche clientle it's like wankers anonymous in there in my experience. Avoid 'Bridgford like the plague. Only pubs that are slightly passable is the pet shop ie Stratford Haven featuring elderly tories and conseravtive teachers but with decent beer or surprisingly The Southbank which is footie orientated with surprisingly decent beer.

As a pedant, West Bridgford is not in Nottingham. It's in Rushcliffe in the county. If leaving the city, head to The Victoria in Beeston.

 

[8ball]

To be fair the music is appalling (loud cock rawk etc) and the beer selection may be good but the condition is very variable in my experience. If you are into rawk karaoke though it's heaven! No offence, I have an allergy to rawk.

Having been there tonight I can confirm this. It was quite annoying.

 

[8ball]

If leaving the city, head to The Victoria in Beeston.

Mere yards from where I'm sitting, and a good boozer with good grub.

Social centre of Nottingham's academic ghetto.

 

[Maidmarian]

Mere yards from where I'm sitting, and a good boozer with good grub.

Social centre of Nottingham's academic ghetto.

True .

 

[obanite]

Got to say, loving this thread, loads of new pubs to try!

Off to the Gladstone tonight for the pub quiz. We're currently looking for a decent quiz having got sick of the Fleece's, if this doesn't work out might try Sumac. I love Forest Fields

 

[obanite]

2nd time in the Gladstone, ended up hammered, grrr. It's an alright pub, bit small inside but that outside area looks quite nice! We sucked at the quiz though

 

[JHE]

Fellows Morton & Clayton, Canal Street (nr the railway station)

Very good homemade steak & kidney pie - a generous portion with loads of mushy peas. The other food may be OK, too (I haven't tried it yet). Grolsch. Decent TVs for watching football. Young studenty staff - but I don't mind. The poor sods have to earn a living these days.

A good place, IME, to have food and a lovely cold lager after a hard day's work.​

The Bentinck Hotel, next to the railway station

An old-fashioned dump of a pub - not a slightly trendy dump like the Frog & Onion - a proper dump, with its share of drunken old men. Every time I've been there, though, someone has made me laugh and the bar staff have been nice.​

 

[obanite]

Fellows Morton & Clayton, Canal Street (nr the railway station)

Very good homemade steak & kidney pie - a generous portion with loads of mushy peas. The other food may be OK, too (I haven't tried it yet). Grolsch. Decent TVs for watching football. Young studenty staff - but I don't mind. The poor sods have to earn a living these days.

A good place, IME, to have food and a lovely cold lager after a hard day's work.​

The Bentinck Hotel, next to the railway station

An old-fashioned dump of a pub - not a slightly trendy dump like the Frog & Onion - a proper dump, with its share of drunken old men. Every time I've been there, though, someone has made me laugh and the bar staff have been nice.​

Jesus christ, the Frog & Onion is 'slightly trendy'? Last time I was in there a group of drunken women were complaining loudly about how they weren't coming back because of the flies

 

[Clint Iguana]

lock up your daughters, cardiff city will be drinking in nottingham this weekend

 

[JHE]

Jesus christ, the Frog & Onion is 'slightly trendy'? Last time I was in there a group of drunken women were complaining loudly about how they weren't coming back because of the flies

I haven't noticed unusual numbers of flies there, but once or twice I've noticed that the place has fleas. That helps it qualify as a dump.

As for the slight trendiness... there are anarcho-wotsit, anti-capitalist and 'antifa' stickers and graffiti in the loo and I think the customers include quite a lot of people from the scruffy and leftish end of the teaching and social working classes. What's more, the last time I was in there, there were a couple of youngish white men wearing dreadlocks.

 

[JHE]

...and this evening there were lots of 'Goths' there.

Whatever else it may be, the F&O's not a proper old-fashioned smelly-drunk dump.

 

[Mallard]

lock up your daughters, cardiff city will be drinking in nottingham this weekend

Shouldn't that be sheep?

 

[spawnofsatan]

Sounds like there's enough peeps on here for a Notts booze up.

 

[obanite]

I haven't noticed unusual numbers of flies there, but once or twice I've noticed that the place has fleas. That helps it qualify as a dump.

As for the slight trendiness... there are anarcho-wotsit, anti-capitalist and 'antifa' stickers and graffiti in the loo and I think the customers include quite a lot of people from the scruffy and leftish end of the teaching and social working classes. What's more, the last time I was in there, there were a couple of youngish white men wearing dreadlocks.

<boggles> Your definition of trendy is different to mine. Imho, the Pitcher & Piano and the other Lace Market bars are trendy!

 

[seeformiles]

I once spent New Year's Eve in a pub called "The Grosvenor" (I think) - never been snogged so much in my life by lots of pilled-up lasses

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

<boggles> Your definition of trendy is different to mine. Imho, the Pitcher & Piano and the other Lace Market bars are trendy!

Different sort of trendy, innit...

 

[obanite]

I once spent New Year's Eve in a pub called "The Grosvenor" (I think) - never been snogged so much in my life by lots of pilled-up lasses

Down the road from me, used to be my local

 

[obanite]

Different sort of trendy, innit...

I suppose I can see how anarchism and dreads are trendy in a way. In a good way, imho

 

[JohnnyOrange]

I once spent New Year's Eve in a pub called "The Grosvenor" (I think) - never been snogged so much in my life by lots of pilled-up lasses

Used to be my local, a long time ago.

So anyway, Nottingham Urban beers?

 

[obanite]

<directs all and sundry to this amazing, awe-inspiring thread of true genius>

(and hopes nobody remembers what a no show he was last time )

 

[JHE]

The Frog & Onion, on Noel Street in Forest Fields

My favourite grotty dump of a pub seems to be going through hard times. It is often almost empty. It used to serve Beck's on draught, which was a major plus. Now it doesn't. Real ales. It has a quiz night and often has live music of various sorts to bring in the punters. I hope the pub survives.​

The Frog and Onion is still doing alright whenever I've been in there lately Great pub, best pool table in Nottingham in my opinion, even if it does look a bit worse for the wear.

Frog & Onion is due to close at the end of April, unfortunately.

 

[OneStrike]

Bentinck 'Hotel'


Mentioned already but this place had a real impact on me. A few years ago when living in Nottingham i made a point of going there at least once a week, always on my own.

Not once did i ever leave without a new story or experience. The barman looked about 12, the resident scottish alcoholic sat in the corner would swing punches at strangers as the walked past him (ex boxer with hands like shovells but about 70 so harmless). Often people released from prison would be in the pub with there plastic bag of posessions. Best was seeing the look on the faces of weary travellers looking for a nice pint before their train arrived!!

Wouldn't change the Bentinck one bit!